At Visa GCC Connect 2025, bestselling author of The Black Swan and Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, issued a stark warning: the real fragilities aren’t hidden, they’re in plain sight. From soaring Western debt to AI disrupting white-collar professions, Taleb argues that global power is shifting back to the East, with China and Africa on the rise. His advice: systems cannot be engineered top-down. True resilience comes from entrepreneurs, risk-takers, and bottom-up innovation. Speaking at Visa GCC Connect 2025, Milan, Italy.
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[Bloomberg] Nassim Taleb Warns About Software Bankruptcies, Volatility
Nassim Taleb, author of “The Black Swan” and distinguished scientist at Universa Investments, warns that markets are underpricing structural risks while overestimating the durability of recent AI leaders. Speaking with Bloomberg’s Natalia Kniazhevich, Taleb also weighs in on US tariff policy and the market impact of increasing tensions between Iran and the US.
[YouTube] A Conversation with Nassim Taleb on the Risks of Cancer and Heart Disease
Emi Gal, founder and CEO of Ezra, sat down with Nassim Taleb to talk about cancer, heart disease, full body MRIs, and more. The conversation covers why Nassim gets full body MRIs, the legitimate concerns around incidental findings, and what the data actually says about early cancer detection.
[YouTube] Nassim Nicholas Taleb at RPI Blueprint For Peace 2025
Taleb provides seven main points to address the conundrum of our current times.
[YouTube] Stephen Wolfram visits RWRI 20 (The Real World Risk Summer School, 2025)
Stephen Wolfram visits RWRI 20 (The Real World Risk Summer School, 2025) Automata, computational irreducibility, ruliad, self-proving theorems, etc.
[YouTube] Nassim Taleb on Risks, Gold, Private Markets, Trump Tariffs
Nassim Taleb, author of “The Black Swan,” and scientific advisor at Universa Investments, says he doesn’t think the “consciousness of risks” has improved over the last 25 years. He discusses the increasing US deficit, gold as a reserve currency, the opacity of private markets, and why the Trump administration’s approach to tariffs “makes no sense.”
00:00 – Taleb on “consciousness of risks”
02:12 – What drives markets
04:23 – Taleb on the US dollar and gold as a reserve currency
07:18 – Nassim Taleb on hedge funds and the opacity of private markets
09:33 – Trump administration’s tariff approach “makes no sense,” Nassim Taleb says
[YouTube] Discussion with Pierre Zalloua on ‘Ancestors’
A discussion with Pierre Zalloua about his book Ancestors on the Genetic & Cultural History of the Levant. It is the first scientific history of the area, which debunks many historical accounts.
[YouTube] The Base Rate Fallacy in Cardiology with respect to LDL
People with normal Lp(a) have much lower risk factors. We tend to overmedicate them. The normal levels of LDL should be revised upwards for them.
[YouTube] Does the Ketogenic Diet Work for Brain Cancer? Finding Signal in a Small Sample
Does the Ketogenic Diet Work for Brain Cancer? Doctors find it hard to do a trial, so many make you believe that it does not work rather than simply claiming “it is just untested” (conflating the absence of evidence for evidence of absence).
Bloomberg: Nassim Taleb Says Nvidia Rout ‘Is the Beginning’
Black Swan author Nassim Taleb says the steep plunge in Nvidia exposes the equity market’s fragility, while warning of more losses ahead. Speaking to Bloomberg’s Sonali Basak on the sidelines of Miami Hedge Fund Week, Taleb says a drawdown two or three times bigger than Monday’s 17% selloff is “absolutely in line” with what the market should expect.